Chief Master Sgt. Calvin C. Glover : Vietnam

STEUBENVILLE - The remains of a city native who was listed as missing in action from the Vietnam War since his C-130 went down on May 22, 1968, have been buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

1. The Defense Department announced Thursday that the body of Chief Master Sgt. Calvin C. Glover was buried in a group with eight other crewmates from the plane at Arlington on Thursday.

The individually identified remains of the Air Force crew had been returned to their families and given burial with full military honors, the Defense Department said.
According to reports from The Buffalo News Web site, Glover's wife, mother, family and friends, attended a service May 20 in Arlington. Glover's widow, Deanna, had not remarried, the newspaper said.
His mother, now 90, also attended the service.
The Defense Department said Glover, who was flight engineer on the aircraft, was on a crew flying an evening flare mission over Laos.
Some 15 minutes after the last radio call from the C-130 Hercules, another aircraft crew spotted a fire believed to be an aircraft, on the ground in the last known location of Glover's plane.
The aircraft was deep in enemy territory, according to a nonprofit POW/MIA group called Task Force Omega Inc., which has a description of the crash of Glover's plane on its Web site.
The group's report said without actual spotting of aircraft wreckage either that night or the next day after the fire was out, nor any evidence of parachutes or emergency calls or beeper signals, no rescue operation was initiated.
The Defense Department's release said there was heavy antiaircraft fire in the area, so no search and rescue attempts were initiated.
The Defense Department's Missing Personnel Office developed case leads with information spanning more than 40 years, according to its press release issued Thursday about the C-130 crew.
Interviews with eyewitnesses and research in the National Archives, helped identify several locations in Laos and South Vietnam as potential crash sites. The Defense Department said between 1989 and 2008, teams from the Laos People's Democratic Republic and Vietnam, led by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, followed leads, interviewed villagers and conducted 10 field investigations and four excavations in Quang Tri Province, Vietnam. Aircraft wreckage, human remains, crew-related equipment and personal effects were recovered.
Using DNA identification to match the remains with family members, as well as dental comparisons, scientists from the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command identified the airmen.
The Department of Defense said while 927 Americans killed in the Vietnam War have been accounted for and returned to their families since late 1973, there are still 1,719 service members missing.
Glover's name is listed on the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.

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